REPORT OF STATE DAIRY INSPECTOR. 13 



With these excepticns, all inspection of milk has been left to 

 the state and during the warmer months when complaints be- 

 come frequent, I ihave found some difficulty in visiting and 

 inspecting as many supplies as I would like to, in order that 

 the best results can be secured. If it were possible, monthly 

 samples of the supplies of our cities should be taken, especially 

 during the warmer months, but this is hardly possible under 

 the present conditions. 



Criticisms about the local inspector are many ; but he is usu- 

 ally handicapped by lack of proper testing facilities or lack of 

 training and does not care to give his time to learning the 

 process, not knowing how long he is to remain in office, and 

 is too poorly paid for the time required. 



The placing of a man in a strange position and hampering 

 him with lack of proper equipment, lack of proper milk ordi- 

 nances and insufficient compensation for time required to do 

 efficient work, is not conducive to better milk for our cities. 



The need of men thoroughly acquainted with the prope'^ 

 methods oif testing milk and who receive ample compensation 

 to allow some time to be given to the work, is potent for our 

 cities. 



Public sentimeint, rather than political preference, should 

 govern such an office, which, in cooperation with the Board of 

 Health, should stop any outbreak of disease that is liable to 

 arise from an unsanitary milk supply. 



Increases in the price of milk have been noted in many in- 

 stances, in an endeavor on the producer's part to receive due 

 reward from the business. Loss of animals, due to tuberculosis 

 and a general failure of proper breeding to perpetuate the 

 breeds, has found the buyer of good cows without a source 

 of supply. Naturally the problem of securing enough milk is 

 facing the dairyman and in these days of cow bookkeeping 

 the cost of production is a factor that demands attention if 'he 

 is to succeed. Knowing the cost of producing a quart of milk, 

 the farmer is in a position to demand increases in price ac- 

 cording to his expenses and while such a demand will always 

 be just from the farmers point of view, still, the fact that th? 

 poorer people in our cities may be the ones that will have to 

 pay the increase, causes us to reflect. 



